Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Kansas

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant

Topeka, KS · ~453 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade D.

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant: 7.2 TCR = 177% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant safety composite

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2018

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant injury rate improved

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant's TCR fell 0.8 from 6.6 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 177% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO West Soy Tofu
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 99 inj
  • SIZE ~453 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Soy Tofu (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant averages 7.2 TCR (177% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=5.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Kansas.

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant (453 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant
Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant (453 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Reser'S-Topeka Salad Plant has more employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 5.8 5.8 5 0 0
2017 9.3 6.8 56 0 0
2016 6.6 6.1 38 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · KS · Topeka

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR West Soy Tofu 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Nutritional Foods, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mart Fresh Pack LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosina Food Products - Empire 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NCI - LIBERAL 456 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emprise Bank 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iola 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWG, Kansas City 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR 03-Boston Terminal 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Park 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MI Metals, Inc. (Prescott Valley) 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fischer Special Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bedford - 174 Middlesex Pkwy 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-ASA-20730100-IF 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crescent Park Corporation 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE DTRTMIBHDS0 453 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.